Members of The Cluster staff won departmental and university awards at Mercer University’s annual Honors Convocation Friday, including two journalism honors. News Editor Nadia Pressley was named the...
The staff of The Cluster, the independent student-run newspaper at Mercer University, won nine awards at the Georgia Collegiate Press Association Better Newspaper Contest Friday.
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When Angela Manson drives around the neighborhood in which she grew up, she can still remember familiar houses and their occupants.
But many of those houses in Macon's Pleasant Hill neighborhood are...
Past editors in chief will probably disagree with what I’m about to say, but I’m going to say it anyway.
Last year was one of the most exciting times to be editor in chief of The Cluster, and I am...
It was announced before Christmas last year that Mercer and local media were coming together to create a Center for Collaborative Journalism.
As a follow up to that, the director for Mercer’s new...
The journalism department at Mercer not only seeks to teach students essential writing skills but also the important ways in which communication and media affect our lives and culture.
According to the...
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Philadelphia Inquirer editor Hank Klibanoff visited Mercer on Feb. 9 to deliver a lecture on coverage of race relations in the...
